Musical notation is an alternative language used to help musicians know when to play, what to play, and how to play it. The following is a short lesson about musical notation, which will help you interpret both most classic and contemporary sheet music. Reading music really is not that hard if you know exactly what each musical symbol actually means. The major groups of musical symbols that you need to know in musical notation include the following: Staff: This is a small set of five lines and four spaces on which musical notes and other symbols are placed.

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Most standard, well used cadences have been classified, have been used for centuries in western music and are just as valid in modern music as they were when they were first developed.

A cadence is a progression of chords or perhaps a melodic progression used to give some type of finality to a phrase or section of music, rhythm and harmony being important to ensure a true, ‘punctuational’, cadence. The chords only act as a cadence should these criteria be met.

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